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Five dribbles of chatter from the league's front-office and coaching grapevines: Among the immediate concerns for the Indiana Pacers heading into the Eastern Conference finals against Miami is the state of David West's right calf. One of the longe...

Chad Ford offers his third mock draft of 2013, in the wake of Tuesday night's NBA Draft Lottery.

Story | Conversation | May 21, 2013

Chad Ford offers his second mock draft of 2013, and Nerlens Noel is still the top pick.

Story | Conversation | May 08, 2013

Jeff Schultz of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The new tough-minded, cool and resilient, ain't-no-call-in-the-world-gonna-cause-us-to-trigger-another-nuclear-meltdown Hawks returned to action Wednesday night. And they stuck around - for about a qu...

Mark Bradley of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The notion struck midway through another second quarter in which the Atlanta Hawks were extracting, without Novocain and with great force, the "d" from Indiana. "The Pacers can't guard the Hawks," dec...

David Haugh of the Chicago Tribune: Fans flocked to the Barclays Center for Game 2 on Monday night between the Bulls and Nets fully expecting to see a key trio take control of this series. Indeed, a Big Three did. Except the players weren't Nets star...

5-on-5 roundtable: Our experts make their picks for opening day of the 2013 NBA playoffs.

Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times: Yay? One of the most hyped teams in NBA history fell exhaustedly into the playoffs Wednesday. Appropriately, it happened with only three hours left in the season. Fittingly, it was clinched when they were just ...

Chad Ford unveils his first mock draft of 2013, with Nerlens Noel leading the way.

Story | Conversation | April 09, 2013

Bradford Doolittle looks at which teams stand to gain the most from shorter rotations in the playoffs. If you're the Miami Heat, that just means more of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

Story | Conversation | April 08, 2013

John Canzano of The Oregonian: When that awful video footage went public, showing the Rutgers men's basketball coach throwing balls at his players in practice, verbally abusing them, shoving them and assaulting them with gay slurs, I did the oddest t...

Larry Coon groups the NBA teams according to their salary-cap situation. The Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers will likely have to pay quite a luxury tax next season.

Story | Conversation | April 02, 2013

Rookie Evan Fournier scored a season-high 19 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, and the Denver Nuggets extended their home winning streak to 18 games by beating the Brooklyn Nets 109-87 on Friday night.

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They're lurking. This time of year strategy can get really weird, with all kinds of stuff happening besides every team trying to win every game. Some teams are out of the playoffs and tanking. Some teams are trying like hell just to make the playo...

PLAYA VISTA, Calif. - Clippers guards Chauncey Billups and Eric Bledsoe returned to practice on Friday and will be game-time decisions for Saturday's game against the Brooklyn Nets. Billups missed Wednesday's game against the Philadelhia 76ers aft...